Sarajevo

From Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای‎, Turkish Saray-ovası, from saray (“palace”), from Persian سرای‎ (sarây, “inn”).[1]), and ova "plain, lowland".[2][3]

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɑɹəˈjeɪvəʊ/

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Sarajevo

1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
   • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344:

     I had planned a stop in Sarajevo to meet with a multiethnic delegation to hear their ideas about what the United States government and private organizations could do to help heal a society ripped apart by war. The security situation forced me to cancel my trip to Sarajevo, but the people I was to meet were so disappointed that they insisted on braving the journey along fifty miles of treacherous roads to meet me in Tuzla.

2. A canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Sarajevan

Sarajevo

1. Alternative spelling of Sarajewo

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajɛvo]

Sarajevo n (related adjective sarajevský)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Sarajevo in Internetová jazyková příručka

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای‎ (saray, “house, mansion, palace”), from Persian سرای‎ (sarây, “inn”).

• IPA^(key): [saraˈjevo]
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• Rhymes: -evo
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Bosnio kaj Hercegovino

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑjevo/, [ˈsɑrɑ̈jevo]
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Sarajevo (genitive Sarajevo, partitive Sarajevot)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “Sarajevo”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
• Sarajevo in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
• Sarajevo in Sõnaveeb

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa.je.vo/

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Sarajevo ?

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʁaˌjeːvo/, /ˌsaʁaˈjeːvo/, /zaʁa-/, /-jɛvo/

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Sarajevo n (proper noun, genitive Sarajevos or (optionally with an article) Sarajevo)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Sarajevo ?

1. Alternative form of Sarajevó

Sarajevo

1. Alternative spelling of Saraievo

From Ottoman Turkish سرای‎ (saray) (from Persian سرای‎ (sarây, “house, palace”)) and اووه‎ (ova, “plain, lowland”) (from Proto-Turkic [Term?]).

• IPA^(key): /sǎra(j)eʋo/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Sàrajevo n (Cyrillic spelling Са̀рајево)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• Sarajlija

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajevɔ]

Sarajevo n (genitive singular Sarajeva, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• “Sarajevo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)